Government payrolls, are the only thing that expanded during the past session of Congress. Public sector jobs multiplied like a virus, and the number of six-figure government employees skyrocketed. Meanwhile, real unemployment in the private sector – including seasonal adjustments, long-term discouraged workers, and the underemployed – hit 22% nationwide. The lights burned bright and merry in the plush offices of K Street lobbying firms, while the rest of the economy slid into darkness.

This Congress demonstrated its economic wisdom with the Cash for Clunkers program, which wasted billions of your dollars in a futile attempt to shovel new car sales from one quarter to another, giving them a “success story” to tout for a while… until they realized nobody was gullible enough to consider it successful. Meanwhile, it drained sales from healthy industries, destroyed the used-car market, and provided incentives for low-income buyers to rack up more debt they cannot afford to repay.

The House of Representatives was presided over by a Speaker of astonishing arrogance, who recklessly abused her power for personal convenience. Caught in a trap of her own making, after trying to score political points against terrorist interrogation techniques she had been fully briefed on, Nancy Pelosi tried to weasel her way out by claiming the CIA lied to her. The disgraceful “leadership” of Pelosi and Reid will be studied by generations to come, in the kind of class future kids only have to take when they’re caught skipping more interesting classes to fool around on their hoverboards.

This was a Congress at war with American business, which is a war against American liberty, since business is the instrument through which we invest the hours of our lives. The 111th Congress spent its term menacing the private sector with disastrous, economy-killing ideas like cap-and-trade, Card Check, and value-added taxes… then wondered why nobody was creating any jobs. There’s no point in taking risks and doing the hard work to be a winner, when the losers get taxpayer bailouts, provided they have employees from the right labor unions.

The passage of ObamaCare shattered the myth of the “moderate Democrat” for a generation. Every one of them is an accomplice to this radical offense against the American people. Private comments from Congressional representatives made it clear they knew exactly what they were doing to us. They saddled us with a system designed to fail, and pave the way for something even worse: single-payer socialized medicine.

Faced with electoral destruction at the hands of an enraged populace, the Democrats of the 111th Congress spent their last days calling the voters stupid and insane. They scurried out of town without even passing a budget, leaving a recessionary economy tied to the ticking bomb of the expiring Bush tax cuts.

Remember the arrogance. Remember the cowardice. Remember the ugly hatred of middle-class America. Remember the sheer blind stupidity of those who demand the power to write our destiny, when they’re not yelping in surprise at the latest piece of “unexpected” economic news.

Remember the 111th Congress this Tuesday, and render your verdict in the voting booth.

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In the private world these criminals would be beholden to the justice system, yet they can destroy money, business and lives with no more accounting than to be kicked out of Congress with fat retirement benefits.

That’s wrong. I don’t know what it would be but there needs to be SOMETHING more that can be done to these thugs than simply taking away their DC office.

The President recently admitted that the stated reason for appropriating this vast sum of money, the creation of “shovel-ready jobs,” was an outright lie.
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The nation was lead to believe,infrastructure was going to
happen,all across the 50 States,er 57 States,bridges,roads,
etc,and that ObamaVoterBots werre going to get paid,and at
least they would be employed!!!!!!!!!!!!

Make public ALL financial accounts of all congressional members. Part of the territory running for public office is that your financial records all become public record available throughout your political career.

…the Democrats of the 111th Congress spent their last days calling the voters stupid and insane. They scurried out of town without even passing a budget, leaving a recessionary economy tied to the ticking bomb of the expiring Bush tax cuts.

That’s wrong. I don’t know what it would be but there needs to be SOMETHING more that can be done to these thugs than simply taking away their DC office.

Bishop on October 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM

Bishop:So true:)

canopfor on October 30, 2010 at 11:28 AM

We’re on the same page, Bishop. How many frivilous lawsuits have been litigated for enormous damages (Mac Donald and the spilled, hot coffee comes to mind), yet the American public has without doubt suffered economic damages beyond imagine. There is a psychological component involved as well, and in the private world we could sue this Congress for cruel and unusual punishment and impairment.

The tide may be changing, however, beyond altering the representation we have it’s time to alter the rules so that representatives can be held accountable for their actions and removed to ensure the public is not penalized without recourse. Radical? Maybe. But this Congress has made me one.

Representatives are employees. They’re employed by us. Until we can change some of the rules we have to ride them hard and stay on their asses like any low-level employee who’s asking to be fired.

This Congress has also been devoted to protecting the banksters who have committed trillions of dollars worth of fraud against the American people. None have gone to jail. They have also allowed Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner to print money at will and run wild without oversight. Enough is enough. Everyone should listen to what Bill Black has to say about it.

The problem is that the public won’t remember this for a generation. The liberal media smear machine will tell so many lies about the next few years of Republican control that people will forget.

The only way, perhaps, us to use the opportunity to take down Dem leaders on massive–and true–ethics charges. If the trials are long enough and the charges lurid enough, people may remember for a few years.

We need, desperately need, twelve years of continuous conservative control of the White House and Congress to put the judiciary and military in some kind of order, and we need the Tea Party looking over their shoulders and calling them out on every bit of pork and every not-quite-wrong act. Of course, this has to be bipartisan.

The problem is that the public won’t remember this for a generation. The liberal media smear machine will tell so many lies about the next few years of Republican control that people will forget.

njcommuter on October 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM

You’re right. The liberals that write history for our school children will say that Bammie was a failure because of Republican partisanship, or filibusters, or some such nonsense. It’s being written as we speak, just as they have blamed Republicans for sexism vs Hillary in the democratic primary of 2008.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s not forget what they did to us by being who and what they are. But better yet, let’s not forget what we did to ourselves by letting them Mau Mau us into violating our fundamental principles of free trade, strict constructionism, limited government, low taxes, etc.

Thank you, Doc! This was a masterpiece. I have been holding off on posting any political links on my FB page prior to the election until I found something that would be bullet-proof. This was it. Here’s what I said on my page…

If you’d like to know why the American people are so politically angry at President Obama and Congress, please read this powerful and insightful, short article.

This coming Tuesday, my hope would be that you consider voting Republican so we can get this economy and nation back on track. You don’t have to be a Republican to find the wisdom in empowering a Legislative branch who can then create accountability for President Obama.

When the American People elected a Republican congress in 1994 after Clinton’s first term, he was forced to be more bi-partisan and this accountability led to his most successful years as President. The reason our economy is so bad and getting worse is because our President and Congress have had no accountability and have been free to try out the most liberal and extreme ideologies on our nation, like a giant science experience. Let’s do something to stop that and get some balance back here in America. Vote Republican on Tuesday!

Wish we could hand this article out at polling places, nah only in Alaska.

I fear the people are really not listening, I hear in conversations “I wish we had Hilary Clinton or John McCain” as president, they are carbon copies of Obama, Obama just finished what the Clinton’s started,it is not D or R we need to fear it is the PROGRESSIVES, self proclaimed Hilary Clinton “I am a modern progressive,” so says Mehgan McCain,like father, ask your candidate if they are a progressive if so run.

. I don’t know what it would be but there needs to be SOMETHING more that can be done to these thugs than simply taking away their DC office.

First things first. With the proper tutelage from the citizenry, the politicians we employ can be taught or forced to (eventually) change the system they’ve rigged for their self agrandizement.
Ultimately, we need a C Amendment limiting these terms in the House & Senate, but it’s going to take a very special breed of patriots to pass such an amendment in both Chambers.
I hope I live to see that day, and I’m convinced that once such an Amendment passes the Congress it will be favorably received by the State legislatures.